اذان
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- էզան (ezan) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān, “adhan, call to prayer”).
Noun
اذان • (ezân) (definite accusative اذانی (ezânı), plural اذانلر (ezânlar))
- (Islam) adhan, call to prayer, a public proclamation made five times a day in Muslim societies
Derived terms
- اذان اوقومق (ezân okumak, “to recite the adhan”)
Descendants
- Turkish: ezan
- → Albanian: ezan
- → Bulgarian: езан (ezan)
- → Hungarian: ezán
- → Macedonian: езан (ezan)
- → Romanian: ezan
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ezan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1531
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ezân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 293
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اذان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 63
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Præconizatio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1335
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اذان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 119
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ezan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اذان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 53
Pashto
Noun
اذان • (azān) ?
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَذَان (ʔaḏān, “call to prayer”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ʔa.ˈðaːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔä.ˈzɑːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæ.ˈzɒːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔä.ˈzɔn]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | aḏān |
| Dari reading? | azān |
| Iranian reading? | azân |
| Tajik reading? | azon |
Noun
| Dari | اذان |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | азон |
اذان • (azân)
- call to prayer, adhan
- Synonym: بانگ نماز (bâng-e namâz)
- اذان مغرب ― azân-e maġreb ― the sunset call to prayer
Descendants
- → Assamese: আজান (azan)
- → Bengali: আযান (ajan), আজান (ajan)
- → Gujarati: અજાન (ajān), અઝાન (ajhān)
- → Hindustani:
- → Odia: ଅଜାନ୍ (ajān)
- → Punjabi:
- → Sindhi: اَذانَ
Urdu
Noun
اذان • (azān) f
- call to prayer, adhan
- Synonym: بانگ نماز (bāng-e namāz)
- مغرب کی اذان ― maġrib kī azān ― the sunset call to prayer